Open-source News

You Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.13 on Ubuntu, Here’s How  9to5Linux

Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting this now-official protocol...

SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR  Phoronix

Even Linus Torvalds can have trouble with autocycle … autocracy… AUTOCOMPLETE!  The Register

For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...

A few weeks ago I wrote about ISD as a new open-source project for interactively managing systemd that aims to be more user intuitive especially for those that aren't veteran Linux server administrators. ISD has continued evolving and out today is ISD v0.5 with the latest enhancements for better managing systemd...

The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech...

OCCT launches for Linux, Steam Deck support announced  VideoCardz.com

OCCT, the PC stress testing tool, is coming to Steam and Linux  OC3D

How to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) on Windows 10 and Windows 11  Windows Central

How to completely remove a Linux distro from the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)  Windows Central

Welcome to tomorrow: AI Confidential demo hits Steam  Notebookcheck.net

StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs  Blocks and Files

Bad News for Older Computers! openSUSE Considers dropping Legacy BIOS Support  It's FOSS News

5 reasons I can’t go back to Windows after trying Linux  XDA Developers

How To Install Linux Apps on Chromebook?  About Chromebooks

Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance Review  Phoronix

Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance...

Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...